Squirrel shorts are pretty common. Raychem even makes a product to prevent it. http://www.te.com/us/en/industries/energy/PDF/E387.pdf Funny part is that back in the 90s a squirrel took out the Raychem main campus substation because they didn't have their own product installed. Best regards, Raye Rivera QA Manager * Canoga Perkins * 818-678-3872 * [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leland Woodall Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 9:57 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Bug / Insects skeletal In the thirteen years I've worked in Tarboro, NC, squirrels were found to be responsible for two city-wide power outages. Brings a whole new meaning to "fried" squirrel... Leland -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of <Bruce Tostevin> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:23 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Bug / Insects skeletal Funny you should mention a snake! I was stationed on Guam in the late 70's when a wayward snake crawled across a distribution buss, tripping the load fault sensors and knocked the Cabras Island power plant off line - caused a major island-wide power outage. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wenger, George M. [Contractor] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:17 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Bug / Insects skeletal Victor, In the past 13 years I had the opportunity to document three creature caused failures of telecommunication products. I've attached photographs of the three creatures (snake, ant, and gecko) and have copied Steve in hopes that he will post the photos for others to see. We believe the creatures were alive when they caused a short-circuited and failed the electronics and died by electrocution. We know this might be viewed as cruel and unusually punishment by some but we viewed the creatures were trespassing. Our customers weren't upset at what happened to the creatures but they were glad that we were able to identify the root cause for the failures. Regards, George George M. Wenger Failure Signature & Characterization Lab LLC 609 Cokesbury Road, High Bridge, NJ 08829 (908) 638-8771 Home (732) 309-8964 Mobile E-mail: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Wenger, George M. [Contractor] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:21 AM To: 'TechNet E-Mail Forum'; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: Bug / Insects skeletal Yes absolutely. Regards, George George M. Wenger Failure Signature & Characterization Lab LLC 609 Cokesbury Road, High Bridge, NJ 08829 (908) 638-8771 Home (732) 309-8964 Mobile E-mail: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Victor Hernandez Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 9:05 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Bug / Insects skeletal Fellow TechNetters: Can the remains of Insects/Bugs skeletal on the surface of a motherboard cause a functional failure before they died? Victor, ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. 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